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From: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 8088->68000 code conversion
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Date: 10 Apr 89 06:37:20 GMT
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In article <12316@louie.udel.EDU> GJose@pco-multics.hbi.honeywell.com writes:
>Can anyone help me locate a program to convert MSDOS 8088 code to amiga
>68000 code. I have an application written on an MSDOS machine that I would
>like to directly port to my amiga with a minimum of effort.
>Thanks in advance,
>Graham Jose

 R U kidding???? There is a totally different scheme for doing almost every-
thing on an Amiga.  For a small example, printing a single character on an
MS-DOS machine involves loading AL with the character, AH with the DOS
function number, and doing an INT (simulate hardware interrupt) instruction.
On an Amiga, it involves sending a message to the console handler requesting
that it display a character.  This is a whole lot more than a trivial
"Well, mov ax,bx is a lot like move d1,d0 ..."  It would be a nightmare to
convert all these semantic differences.  How about using Transformer? 8^))
Whoever did that completely (or nearly so) simulated an IBM PC (right down
to running MS-/PC-DOS itself!)